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Metamorphoses

Ovid's poem brings together an array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation, often as a result of love or lust, in which men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Mortals become gods, animals turn to stone, and humans change into flowers, trees, or stars.

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  • "Ovid's poem brings together an array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation, often as a result of love or lust, in which men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Mortals become gods, animals turn to stone, and humans change into flowers, trees, or stars."@en
  • "[This volume offers]: Ovid's epic poem - whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages - is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's time to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found a living source in Ovid's work.-Back cover."@en
  • "Metamorphoses, the best-known poem by one of the wittiest poets of classical antiquity, takes as its theme change and transformation, as illustrated by Greco-Roman myth and legend."@en
  • "Publius Ovidis Naso was born in 43 BC. He wrote "Metamorphoses" in Rome about two thousand years ago. Most of the stories in Ovid's collection are Greek myths and legends, but the names of the divinities and mortals have been Romanised. In this recording we have returned them to their Greek origins. "Metamorphoses" is intended as the first of a trilogy of performances by Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden (followed by the Iliad and the Odyssey). It serves as an introduction to the Gods and Goddesses, their powers, provinces and temperaments."
  • "A series of tales in Latin verse dealing with mythological, lgendary, and historical figures, they are written in hexameters, in 15 books, beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Caesar and the reign of Augustus.-Record BB273."@en
  • "A collection of some 250 Greek and Roman myths and folk tales that has always been a popular favorite and has decisively shaped western art and literature from the moment it was completed in AD 8. The stories are particularly vivid when read by David Horovitch in this new lively verse translation by Ian Johnston."@en
  • ""Metamorphoses, by Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC-AD 17) has, over the centuries, been the most popular and influential work from our classical tradition. This extraordinary collection of some 250 Greek and Roman myths and folk tales has always been a popular favorite and has decisively shaped western art and literature from the moment it was completed in AD 8. The stories are particularly vivid when read by David Horovitch in this new lively verse translation by Ian Johnston."--Publisher's description."@en
  • "Ovid's sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation, often as a result of love or lust, in which men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Mortals become gods, animals turn to stone, and humans change into flowers, trees, or stars."@en
  • "A translation of Ovid's narrative collection of tales from ancient Greek and Roman mythology tells the stories of Theseus, King Midas, Hercules, Daedalus, Icarus, and the Trojan War, among other legends."@en

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